MBA lawyer means business in-house

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Daniel Cooperman, the senior vice pres, general counsel and secretary of Oracle Corp, the world's largest supplier of information management software and the world's second-largest software company overall, heads a department of 97 attorneys worldwide with 38 at the company's Redwood Shores headquarters. Most legal work is done in-house, with the exception of the actual trial work on major cases or documenting exceptionally large transactions. The department's largest specialty is commercial licensing and services.

Oracle Corp., ORCL, Cooperman, Daniel

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Managing his own lawyers' paper trail

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James F. Kelley, the senior vice pres and general counsel of the Georgia-Pacific Corp, has a total of 90 people under him, of which 35 are lawyers. The legal department has just one layer of management at present, whereas when Kelley started there, in 1993, it was more pyramidally organized. The department's budget for 1997 was $38,833,000. Its expenditures for outside counsel in 1996 were $26.5 mil. Of the lawyers who work for Kelley, a dozen handle mainly litigation, while the rest are generalists.

Georgia-Pacific Corp., GP, Kelley, James F.

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A reshaped staff signaled success

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Peter M. Kreindler, the senior vice pres, general counsel and secretary of AlliedSignal Inc, heads a department of approximately 70 lawyers across the US and has a legal budget of around $19mil and outside counsel fees of around $16mil. Most of the litigation is done by outside counsel, while most of the corporate work and internal counseling is done within the department. Kreindler objects to most outside counsel's lack of initiative in cost control.

ALD, AlliedSignal Inc., Kreindler, Peter M.

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